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| - Being a fan of locally owned restaurants is a large part of what Yelp is all about. Here is a great example of a restaurant that is in a strip mall, locally owned, and under advertised. Karen Thai was recommended to us by a friend and we were not disappointed.
This place is casual, and maybe a bit pedestrian to look at. The seating is in booths with marble top tables, we were told to pick our own seat by the one and only service person that we saw. He promptly stopped at our table and asked us what we would like to drink. We got waters with an ice tea, it turned out to be their green tea on ice... it was a nice change to the standard tea. He did offer us a nice range of drinks including Thai tea, sodas, in general the usual list of non-alcoholic beverages.
We ordered the deep fried shrimp appetizer, We could have made a whole meal of them. The sweet chili sauce that they brought with it was as good as we have ever had. The shrimp were wrapped in wonton wraps, deep fried then delivered hot to the table. SCORE!
For the rest of our meal we split the Tom Yum soup, $9.95 was the price and you could select from Chicken, Pork or Tofu as the primary ingredient. We like the Tom Yum with seafood, it wasn't an option so we picked the chicken. We were delighted at the rich taste of the broth, the mushrooms were plentiful so overall it was filling. We ate till we were full, and did not order anything more as this had done it! We came home with more soup for snacks.
Having to use the restrooms was slightly less appealing, the restroom was clean but someone had left an empty container of hair grease in the bottom of the empty paper dispenser/mirror. They did have paper, just not in the one right in front of me. So maybe it was just a bit on the flukey side, but the lights were out when entering as well.
We are looking forward to going back. The bill totaled $24 dollars so it is right in line with other Thai restaurants. This is not your best bet for a romantic evening, it was very nice as a family or casual spot to eat.
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